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NewsGLAs Make 'The Case for eLoran'
Continuing the theme of operational efficiency in our coverage of the Trinity House Technical Open Day in Harwich last month, the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland have released The Case for eLoran.
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Boskalis Buys Cofra
Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has boosted its 51% holding in geosynthetics for civil engineering specialist Cofra to full ownership. The acquisition strengthens Boskalis'' position in the global market for specialist soil improvement techniques. Cofra has concentrated on methods of soil improvement for the construction of infrastructure projects and ...
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SASMEX Sails Home
It identifies how enhanced Loran (eLoran) will secure the safe, low risk and cost effective mix of Aids to Navigation (AtoN) needed for the benefit and safety of all mariners around the British Isles.The Safety at Sea and Marine Equipment Exhibition (SASMEX), which Safety at Sea International magazine hosted for ...
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NewsEnvironmental Offset at New Ro-Ro Terminal
The DFDS Nordic Terminal Riverside, the new £ 35m development at Associated British Ports'' Port of Immingham was opened last month on the day which marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Immingham Dock.
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News'Personal Everest' of Seawork Sibling
Visitors to the Ohmex Ltd stand at Seawork 2006 may have found more on display than just the portable hydrographic survey instruments which drew them there. Ohmex man Ted Read was also drawing attention to the efforts of his brother, disabled yachtsman Geoff Holt, to mount the Round Britain Challenge ...
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News'Nomadic' Returns to Belfast Birthplace
History was made on the 15th of last month when the White Star Line tender Nomadic returned to Belfast 95 years after leaving the Harland & Wolff shipyard where it was built.
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Rising Seas Predicted
A report published by UK Environment Secretary David Milliband concludes that climate change poses an immediate threat to the European Union target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010.
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EWEA
Nomadic served as tender to its ill-fated big sister Titanic when the latter ship made its first and only call at Cherbourg on 10 April 1912. Nomadic ferried 172 first and second class passengers out of Cherbourg harbour to board Titanic, including John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim and Margaret 'Unsinkable ...
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ABP EGM Votes 'Sell'
The sale of Associated British Ports Holdings PLC to the American led international consortium Admiral Acquisitions UK Limited was approved by 98.75% of the shares voted at an Extraordinary General Meeting last month. It was expected that dealings in ABPH shares on the London Stock Exchange would be suspended on ...
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Australian Video Recorder Contract
NETmc Marine in Aberdeen reports an order worth more than US$100,000 for its range of digital video recorders from SureSpek of Western Australia, an inspection, maintenance and repair consultancy retained by Australia''s largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production concern, Woodside Petroleum.
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Intelligent GPS Units
French company Cadden has launched a multipurpose system for synchronising data from differing sensors in UTC (Universal Time Clock) time and space with a facility for integrating high-precision GPS positioning, data acquisition and measurement functions.
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NewsGardline Continues Survey Fleet Expansion
Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Shipping continues its acquisitive fleet expansion programme with the successful purchase of RRS Charles Darwin. The 69m LOA vessel, renamed RV Ocean Researcher, follows RV Triton and MV Confidante as the third ship purchased by Gardline in the past 18 months. It was delivered in ...
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Positioning & Surveying Courses
University of Nottingham''s Institute of Engineering Surveying & Space Geodesy (IESSG) says it has funding available to support UK and EU students on MSc courses in satellite positioning and navigation technology as well as geodetic surveying.
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Thales Navigation Takeover
GPS equipment specialist Thales Navigation, whose European headquarters are in Carquefou, France, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Shah Capital Partners (SCP), a private equity consortium based in Santa Clara, California.
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Kongsberg Maritime Extends its Acoustic Range
Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has extended its HiPAP series of acoustic positioning and underwater navigation systems with introduction of a portable 350P model which, it says, heralds a new era of positioning for vessels of opportunity.
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NewsBGS-UKHO Mapping Agreement
The UK Hydrographic Office, whose new chief executive Mike Robinson assumed office last month (see inset), has signed an agreement with British Geological Survey for joint production of new digital seabed geological maps covering UK continental shelf regions.
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NewsMultraship Orders Carousel Tugs From Malaysia
The long awaited orders for the first two innovative Combi tugs, equipped with the unique Carousel towing system, have now materialised. Dutch salvage and towage company Multraship Towage & Salvage has ordered two tugs of this type from Malaysian shipbuilder Nautica Nova Shipbuilding & Engineering (NNSE).
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NewsITC Carry Out a 16,000 Mile Round Trip With French Warship
After a towage operation of 16,000 nautical miles, the tug Sable Cape from International Towage Contractors BV (ITC) of the Netherlands finally handed over the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau to French Navy tugs at the Port of Brest.
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NewsReinforcements for URAG
Bremen based towage company Unterweser Reederei (URAG) has taken delivery of two new Voith Schneider tractor tugs and is reported to be considering further orders for replacement vessels for their 16 tug fleet.
